Civil rights demonstrators being marched off to jail after defying restraining orders in Tallahassee.

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Photographed at the NE corner of Monroe Street and College Avenue after picketing at the State Theatre in downtown. After demonstrating for nine days without arrest, demonstrators were arrested on formal charges of contempt of court for wilfully and knowingly defying, on two successive days, restraining orders granted by a Circuit Judge.

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